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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Cleaning Out the Closet
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'Cleaning out the closet is typically a woman's task. It is also a perfect metaphor for the creative endeavour as it rummages through junk - items long discarded or abandoned - for signs of renewal. In the tradition of the great female storytellers - Alice Munro, Doris Lessing, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf - Mary Pomfret reveals the dramatic, consequential and often painful intimacies harboured within the seemingly innocuous details of family life.' - Sue Gillett

'Mary Pomfret's fiction explores uncanny inner landscapes of memory and desire. Her stories challenge the amnesia behind everyday existence and after a reading we are reacquainted with our strangely familiar, vulnerable and eminently human better selves.' - Ian Irvine

'Mary Pomfret's stories speak to the heart of family darkness, sibling rivalry, filial love and lost innocence, without for an instant being melodramatic or overwrought. These beautiful, compelling tales are peopled with complex characters and told by a writer who makes the domestic sublime.' - Alice Pung '(Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2014 .
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      Extent: 71p.
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      • Published March 31st 2014
      ISBN: 9781740278560 (paperback)

Works about this Work

Rummaging in Our Souls Amy Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing , October vol. 18 no. 2 2014;

— Review of Cleaning Out the Closet Mary Pomfret , 2014 selected work short story
Rummaging in Our Souls Amy Brown , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing , October vol. 18 no. 2 2014;

— Review of Cleaning Out the Closet Mary Pomfret , 2014 selected work short story
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